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chat

A stony mineral material, occurring with mineral ore; very similar to chert.

chat

1

1. any Old World songbird of the subfamily Turdinae (thrushes, etc.) having a harsh chattering cry

2. any of various North American warblers, such as Icteria virens (yellow-breasted chat)

3. any of various Australian wrens (family Muscicapidae) of the genus Ephthianura and other genera

chat

2

Archaic or dialect a catkin, esp a willow catkin

chat

(chat, messaging)

Any system that allows any number of
logged-in users to have a typed, real-time, on-line
conversation via a network.

The medium of chat is descended from talk, but the terms
(and the media) have been distinct since at least the early
1990s. talk is prototypically for a small number of people,
generally with no provision for channels. In chat
systems, however, there are many channels in which any
number of people can talk; and users may send private
(one-to-one) messages.

Chat systems have given rise to a distinctive style combining
the immediacy of talking with all the precision (and
verbosity) that written language entails. It is difficult to
communicate inflection, though conventions have arisen to help
with this.

Much of the chat style is identical to (and probably derived
from) Morse code jargon used by ham-radio amateurs since the
1920s, and there is, not surprisingly, some overlap with TDD
jargon. Most of the jargon was in use in talk systems.
Many of these expressions are also common in Usenetnews
and electronic mail and some have seeped into popular
culture, as with emoticons.

The MUD community uses a mixture of emoticons, a few of
the more natural of the old-style talk mode abbreviations,
and some of the "social" list above. In general, though,
MUDders express a preference for typing things out in full
rather than using abbreviations; this may be due to the
relative youth of the MUD cultures, which tend to include many
touch typists. Abbreviations specific to MUDs include:
FOAD, ppl (people), THX (thanks), UOK? (are you OK?).

Some BIFFisms (notably the variant spelling "d00d") and
aspects of ASCIIbonics appear to be passing into wider use
among some subgroups of MUDders and are already pandemic on
chat systems in general.

chat

A real-time communication via keyboard between two or more users on a local network (LAN) or over the Internet. Non-verbal, a computer chat is like sending text messages back and forth. Either characters are transmitted after each key is pressed, or all the text is sent when the user presses Enter. The term chat became so pervasive in the computing world that a two-way audio communication is sometimes called a "voice chat," and video calling is often called "video chat."

Live Chat for Support Live text chat is a common website support system, allowing someone to be assisted by a company representative, who typically handles more than one site visitor at a time. Called "live chat," "live help," "live person" or "live support software."

Chat Vs. Instant Messaging (IM) Vs. Texting (SMS) Although all three of these services deal with sending and receiving text, chat and IM sessions are on the computer, while texting is done on cellphones. Chat sessions can be initiated by users merely browsing a website to interact with a sales or service rep at that very moment, whereas instant messaging (IM) requires installing an IM program, opening an account and sending invitations to recipients. See instant messaging and text messaging.

Chatting and Texting Since chat is an English word, if someone refers to "chatting and texting" on a cellphone, it means real chatting (voice calling) and sending text messages. See chat room, video chat and IRC.

A Live Chat

Live chat is a great website addition for customers. When a visitor looks at the router section on Cisco's website, this dialog pops up. Although the young woman's headset might imply a voice call, the live chat is only text.

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